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In reply to the discussion: Donald Trump Is Winning Because White America Is Dying [View all]Yavin4
(37,182 posts)But you know what they also have? They have electorates who vote their economic interests first and foremost. Even the most rabid rightwingers in those nations don't want to end their healthcare systems.
The Democrats are the way they are because they got their asses handed to them by Reagan twice and Bush I. After 1988, they made a concerted effort to move to the center. Why? Because the White working class Democrats from the Roosevelt coalition abandoned them. See Reagan Democrats: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reagan_Democrat
Good for labor Democrats like Walter Mondale and Dick Gephardt got crushed in elections.
PATCO, the union that Reagan crushed, endorsed him in 1980!!!
To answer your question, "How does a union stop manufacturing outsourcing?" it's called collective bargaining. Part of the union contract would be to make it expensive for jobs to be shipped overseas. But you cannot get that if you don't have collective bargaining power inside and outside of the corporation.